Service Architect (SC)

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My client urgently requires a Service Architect to join an on-going programme with one of their key customers.

START: ASAP

DURATION: 6 MONTHS

CLEARANCE: SC

RATE: £550.00 - £600.00 PER DAY (INSIDE IR35)

LOCATION: REMOTE WITH SOME TRAVEL TO HAMPSHIRE

Knowledge:

*Business Process Outsourcing, Oracle HR and pensions administration experience is desirable, but not essential.

*Understand IT System security and mandatory standard compliance.

*Understand infrastructure architecture design and operation and their contribution to the overall software development process and reliable delivery of the Services.

*Understand network design and operation to securely transfer Data with high availability, low latency.

*IT System architecture and life cycle management best practises and controls.

*Understand how complex organisations operate at the business process execution level. How departmental boundaries and internal politics impact behaviours and decisions.

*Degree or equivalent qualification in a relevant subject area is desirable

*Understand how systems and services should be monitored and managed with demonstrable delivery.

*Understand demand and system capacity requirements.

*Understand SIAM (Service Integration and Management) functions and service delivery models

Skills:

*You will analyse complex business/technical problems, synthesise solutions, and communicate options to a wide group of partners

*You will translate a set of approved business requirements and build a structured conceptual service design, review non-functional requirements, gaining consensus for your own and other ideas

*You will collaborate with all development, client and project management teams directly to evolve pragmatic service design solutions, ensuring concepts and designs remain practical and that feedback is acted on.

*You will ensure that all design architectures of changes are assured by the key parties including, data, scalability, capacity, demand, performance, operation, security, standard and license compliance, disaster recovery, monitoring and life cycle as part of the service design process.

*You will represent the service requirements and risks at all gateway meetings and assure the delivery of the non-functional requirements against the service acceptance criteria defined for each change, through test and transition into BAU operation.

Experience:

*You are likely to have fulfilled a service design role in a complex IT service management company, operating a complex service model. It is likely that your experience will have involved some of the following:

*ITIL qualified practitioner, intermediate to expert.

*Fulfilled a service design role involving complex IT services.

*Demonstrable experience in managing technical changes and documenting non-functional requirements.

*Demonstrable experience of working within complex service models with system and service integration between third parties in the delivery of the end to end services.

Due to the nature and urgency of this post, candidates holding or who have held high level security clearance in the past are most welcome to apply. Please note successful applicants will be required to be security cleared prior to appointment which can take up to a minimum 10 weeks. LA International is a HMG approved ICT Recruitment and Project Solutions Consultancy, operating globally from the largest single site in the UK as an IT Consultancy or as an Employment Business & Agency depending upon the precise nature of the work, for security cleared jobs or non-clearance vacancies, LA International welcome applications from all sections of the community and from people with diverse experience and backgrounds.

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